Actuate e.Spreadsheet Designer is an easy-to-use report development environment for creating flexible and customizable Excel-based spreadsheet reports. Unlike other report development tools, e.Spreadsheet Designer offers a unique Excel-driven report creation paradigm, enabling a broad range of users to create reports. With e.Spreadsheet Designer, you can create spreadsheet reports for delivering business-critical information to your customers in Excel as either an adjunct to, or replacement for, Web-based application reports. e.Spreadsheet Designer lets you build reports and connect them to data sources extremely rapidly, leveraging a visual development environment and a variety of menu options and wizards. From there, your application users can leverage standard, familiar Excel functions to tailor the resulting e.Spreadsheets to meet their exact needs. The result: Fast time-to-market with new spreadsheet reporting functionality for you; High value, convenience and easy customization capabilities for your customers.

Fast report creation
With e.Spreadsheet Designer, you can build information-rich spreadsheet reports for your Web-based application extremely rapidly, using a unique environment that resembles the Excel application itself. Powerful menu options and wizards contribute to making spreadsheet template creation extremely rapid and straightforward, with little or no coding. You can even open an existing Excel file, modify its formatting and formulas, specify new data sources or update existing ones, then save the results as an e.Spreadsheet template. Wizard-based report creation enables you to format cells and worksheets, adjust formulas and data grouping, summarize data automatically, and more. e.Spreadsheet Designer lets you create and customize the full array of charts available with Microsoft Excel, as well as quickly connect your e.Spreadsheet template to your application data source, whether that source is a database, XML file, or Java object. All of which means you can deliver data-rich spread-sheet reports to your customers in record time, with almost no ramp-up or training required.

Easy spreadsheet report customization
Once you've created a template, it's easy for your application users to extend and modify it to get exactly the spreadsheet report they want, without any need for further formatting or assistance. Presented entirely in Excel format, e.Spreadsheets add instant value to your application because they let users quickly customize application spreadsheet reports, using familiar Excel operations. Because customers can access, work with, and customize their new spreadsheet reports instantly, e.Spreadsheet Designer helps you lower your total cost of ownership, with powerful new data presentation capabilities delivered with virtually no need for education or support.